Top Graduate Health Care Management & MBA Programs

Ok, so as far as I can tell there are no rankings of health care MBAs online. So what is one to do in researching for a health care MBA then? Well, I’ve included the schools that US News and World Report ranks at the top for health care management.
(Exceptions: University of Penn-Wharton (4), Northwestern-Kellogg(8), Berkeley-Hass (10), and Duke-Fuqua (20))

I also included public health programs & health policy/management as ranked by US News and World Report as well. (my guess is the later is largely for health care government & policy type positions, but I’m not entirely sure)

What can you do with theses three heath care program ranking lists? Perhaps you could attend a health care management program. Or perhaps you can check on the MBA programs at these schools. (Both alternatives beat relying on ads for random online degree programs.)

Obviously, if the MBA portion of the degree is important to you, you may want to see if the respective universities offer dual degree programs & the overall value of such degrees in the health care marketplace.

As a side note–I have no idea how Colorado-Denver was ranked twice (I can only assume its two different departments).

Vanderbilt University (Owen)
University of Penn (Wharton)
Northwestern (Kellogg)
Berkeley (Hass)
Duke University (Fuqua)
Yale University (Executive Education)
Baylor University
Portland State University
Florida International University
GWU MBA

(notice: the site is otherwise focused on low quality online programs like Phoenix, Walden, and Kaplan–so buyer beware. Although they do have respected universities like Northwestern, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Missouri, and schools which are decent in other areas like Brandeis)

Finally, feel free to bookmark this article/post for further research & reference as you seek out the right health care management or MBA program for you.

Also tied at 46 with Union:
University of Central Florida
University of Kentucky
University of Miami
University of Oklahoma
University of Scranton
University of South Carolina
Washington State University

Sally – Hi… I am not in the healthcare domain. I work in the IT sector and have an ungraduate degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering. I want to shift to the healthcare domain(as a healthcare administrator or a project manager in teh health care side).

I would like to know if I should pursue a dual degree (MBA – Healthcare and an MS in Health Administration or MPH etc). do you think that would be a better option than just a Healthcare MBA (to have that extra added knowledge of the healthcare domain). Please cna you let me know.

I’m not sure. I would ask 3 recruiters and 3 health care human resources people in the area–in the area of hiring. That is truly the best way to know. They are going to know your target audience much better than eye–because for most intents and purposes they are it.

You might also ask the school you are thinking of attending (or say the 3 to 6 you are looking at). Ask them to provide an example of someone–because you want to know more about if their MBA program or other graduate program is really going to transform your life–in order to get your $20k to $40k worth of investment–plus the 2 years of your life.

I will be honesty, both John Hopkins and Boston University are very respectable institutions–in fact often ranked in many areas.

Boston University is Ranked 11th by US News & World Report by the Health Management area. To my knowledge this is an incredibly new ranking. (Note: I’ve fixed this)

I went to their respective webpages and didn’t find any rankings in terms of their Health Care MBA programs. I believe that Hopkins program may be pretty new….I think they are new to the whole MBA space–but they are ranked at 11 as well.

This wasn’t an update that I was privy to until just reading the comments.

The purpose of this post is to help people (as well as to provide legitimacy & rank to the rankings themselves) instead of other lesser known or unreputable schools so that students can make a more effective and objective determination about the future of their lives.

I just was accepted into the executive doctoral program at Medical University of South Carolina….. Chosen for “executive” perspective which is something to consider in both the MHA , MBA, ……..ranked in top 20s but location and executive program were important in my decision.